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Practical Solutions to America's Problems
Tom Mast
Jan 20, 20236 min read
Congress’s Electoral Methods
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock January 2023 This post to the Solve American Gridlock website blog and our Facebook page begins...
Tom Mast
Jan 5, 20234 min read
Speaker of the House Election
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock January 3, 2023 I decided to jot down some thoughts today, January 3, after watching some of...
Tom Mast
Dec 2, 20224 min read
Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the...
Tom Mast
Aug 23, 20223 min read
See Saw Congress (Unsteady, careen, lurch)
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock PROBLEM Over the past roughly 10-25 years, our U.S. Congress has evolved into a bipolar entity,...
Tom Mast
Jul 9, 20222 min read
Safe Seats
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Reference: The Guardian.org, Sam Levine in New York, Feb. 17, 2022 What is a safe seat? ...
Tom Mast
Jul 7, 20223 min read
Energy and Food Production
Tom Mast – Founder of Solve American Gridlock Reference: How the World Really Works, by Vaclav Smil The purpose of this article is to...
Tom Mast
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Multi-Member Districts
Since multi-member districts just may be something new to some folks, let’s take a very few minutes to hit the highlights! Why should, or...
Tom Mast
Jun 18, 20222 min read
Small Modular Reactors (SMR)
Nuclear energy has not been given the attention it deserves in the Climate Change fight! It doesn’t produce greenhouse gases, is not...
Tom Mast
Jun 14, 20222 min read
Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
Vaclav Smil Yale Environment 360, 5/19/22 Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock The article referenced above was adapted by Yale from...
Tom Mast
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Dysfunctional Congress
Solve American Gridlock Tom Mast – Founder Our Dysfunctional Congress is one of the two topics Solve American Gridlock is addressing, and...
Tom Mast
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Letter to API and Oil Companies
Below is a copy of a letter from Solve American Gridlock LLC to the WSJ, the American Petroleum Institute, and several oil companies. I...
Tom Mast
May 10, 20222 min read
THE “SOLVE AMERICAN GRIDLOCK LLC” APPROACH
“…Benjamin Franklin, who, on leaving the constitutional convention of 1787, supposedly told a curious passerby that the Framers had...
Tom Mast
May 6, 20221 min read
Must We Accept Permanent Gridlock in our Congress?
Congress is not doing its job at all well, and a root cause is its division into two diametrically opposed and essentially equal-sized...
Tom Mast
May 3, 20221 min read
BLUEPRINT - Global Warming Mitigation
An incredible amount of information and data is presently known about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions in our world, when and how...
Tom Mast
Apr 20, 20221 min read
GRIDLOCK
Per Merriam-Webster, Gridlock is: a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give in deadlock, halt,...
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